Gregory L. Britten

5.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
38 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Gregory L. Britten is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregory L. Britten has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 17 papers in Ecology and 16 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Gregory L. Britten's work include Marine and fisheries research (17 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (16 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (9 papers). Gregory L. Britten is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (17 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (16 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (9 papers). Gregory L. Britten collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Gregory L. Britten's co-authors include Boris Worm, Heike K. Lotze, Francesco Ferretti, Michael R. Heithaus, Carlos M. Duarte, François Primeau, Edward B. Barbier, Juan Carlos Castilla, Susana Agustı́ and Jean‐Pierre Gattuso and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gregory L. Britten

36 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Patterns and ecosystem consequences of shark declines in the ocean

2010 751 citations Francesco Ferretti, Boris Worm et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Rebuilding marine life

2020 626 citations Carlos M. Duarte, Susana Agustı́ et al. Nature profile →
Sustained climate warming drives declining marine biological productivity

2018 308 citations J. Keith Moore, Weiwei Fu et al. Science profile →
Imbalance of global nutrient cycles exacerbated by the greater retention of phosphorus over nitrogen in lakes

2022 105 citations Zhen Wu, Gregory L. Britten et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gregory L. Britten United States	20	1.4k	1.3k	1.0k	660	268	38	2.7k
Chris J. Harvey United States	34	1.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	601 0.9×	175 0.7×	78	2.8k
Michele Casini Sweden	34	1.8k 1.3×	2.8k 2.1×	1.4k 1.4×	834 1.3×	436 1.6×	111	3.9k
Olivier Le Pape France	36	1.9k 1.4×	2.5k 1.9×	1.0k 1.0×	840 1.3×	383 1.4×	74	3.5k
Carl D. van der Lingen South Africa	30	1.7k 1.3×	2.0k 1.5×	629 0.6×	816 1.2×	264 1.0×	67	3.0k
Kristin M. Kleisner United States	25	1.3k 0.9×	1.9k 1.5×	698 0.7×	390 0.6×	267 1.0×	60	2.7k
Anna Gårdmark Sweden	30	1.7k 1.2×	2.1k 1.6×	1.4k 1.4×	614 0.9×	329 1.2×	80	3.4k
Jorge García Molinos Japan	27	2.0k 1.5×	1.7k 1.3×	707 0.7×	986 1.5×	112 0.4×	74	3.3k
Martin Lindegren Denmark	32	1.5k 1.1×	2.1k 1.6×	735 0.7×	853 1.3×	107 0.4×	82	2.9k
Telmo Morato Portugal	36	2.5k 1.8×	2.4k 1.8×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.6×	505 1.9×	99	4.0k
Ronaldo B. Francini‐Filho Brazil	34	2.9k 2.1×	1.8k 1.4×	796 0.8×	1.2k 1.9×	205 0.8×	124	3.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gregory L. Britten

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20 of 20 papers shown

Greenberg, Dan A., et al.. (2025). Recommendations for estimating and detecting time-varying spawner-recruit dynamics in fish populations. Ecological Modelling. 507. 111159–111159.

Schiller, Laurenne, Gregory L. Britten, Graeme Auld, & Boris Worm. (2024). Learning from positive deviants in fisheries. Fish and Fisheries. 25(3). 409–428. 3 indexed citations

Cael, B. B., Friedrich A. Burger, Stephanie Henson, Gregory L. Britten, & Thomas L. Frölicher. (2024). Historical and future maximum sea surface temperatures. Science Advances. 10(4). eadj5569–eadj5569. 9 indexed citations

Britten, Gregory L., et al.. (2023). Challenges and opportunities in connecting gene count observations with ocean biogeochemical models: Reply to Zehr and Riemann (2023). Limnology and Oceanography. 68(6). 1413–1416. 2 indexed citations

Hickman, Anna E., et al.. (2023). Assessing the Potential of Backscattering as a Proxy for Phytoplankton Carbon Biomass. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(6). 5 indexed citations

Britten, Gregory L., et al.. (2022). Seasonal Photoacclimation in the North Pacific Transition Zone. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 36(6). 5 indexed citations

Mattern, Jann Paul, Gregory L. Britten, John R. Casey, et al.. (2022). A Bayesian approach to modeling phytoplankton population dynamics from size distribution time series. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(1). e1009733–e1009733. 2 indexed citations

Britten, Gregory L., Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Mary R. Gradoville, et al.. (2022). Constraining uncertainties of diazotroph biogeography from nifH gene abundance. Limnology and Oceanography. 67(4). 816–829. 17 indexed citations

Britten, Gregory L.. (2022). Extreme value distributions describe interannual variability in the seasonal North Atlantic phytoplankton bloom. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 7(3). 269–276. 2 indexed citations

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Britten, Gregory L., et al.. (2022). Chlorophyll-a and Sea Surface Temperature Changes in Relation to Paralytic Shellfish Toxin Production off the East Coast of Tasmania, Australia. Remote Sensing. 14(3). 665–665. 5 indexed citations

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Duarte, Carlos M., Susana Agustı́, Edward B. Barbier, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Rebuilding marine life. Nature. 593(7857). E1–E2. 2 indexed citations

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Frawley, Timothy H., Gregory L. Britten, Larry B. Crowder, et al.. (2021). Social relationship dynamics mediate climate impacts on income inequality: evidence from the Mexican Humboldt squid fishery. Regional Environmental Change. 21(2). 35–35. 8 indexed citations

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Aydın, Murat, Gregory L. Britten, S. A. Montzka, et al.. (2020). Anthropogenic Impacts on Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide Since the 19th Century Inferred From Polar Firn Air and Ice Core Measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(16). 11 indexed citations

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Britten, Gregory L. & Elizabeth C Sibert. (2020). Enhanced fish production during a period of extreme global warmth. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5636–5636. 22 indexed citations

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Duarte, Carlos M., Susana Agustı́, Edward B. Barbier, et al.. (2020). Rebuilding marine life. Nature. 580(7801). 39–51. 626 indexed citations breakdown →

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Memarzadeh, Milad, Gregory L. Britten, Boris Worm, & Carl Boettiger. (2019). Rebuilding global fisheries under uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(32). 15985–15990. 39 indexed citations

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Moore, J. Keith, Weiwei Fu, François Primeau, et al.. (2018). Sustained climate warming drives declining marine biological productivity. Science. 359(6380). 1139–1143. 308 indexed citations breakdown →

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Britten, Gregory L., et al.. (2017). Extended fisheries recovery timelines in a changing environment. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15325–15325. 48 indexed citations

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Mackey, Katherine R. M., et al.. (2017). Seasonal Succession and Spatial Patterns of Synechococcus Microdiversity in a Salt Marsh Estuary Revealed through 16S rRNA Gene Oligotyping. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 1496–1496. 31 indexed citations

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Ferretti, Francesco, Boris Worm, Gregory L. Britten, Michael R. Heithaus, & Heike K. Lotze. (2010). Patterns and ecosystem consequences of shark declines in the ocean. Ecology Letters. 13(8). 1055–1071. 751 indexed citations breakdown →

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